Reviews : SULLIVAN, J. W. Markets for the People: The Consumer's Part. Pp. viii, 316. Price, $1.25. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913
| Author | Clyde Lyndon King |
| Date | 01 May 1914 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271621405300152 |
| Published date | 01 May 1914 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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observed
in
all
marriages.
In
the
earlier
decades
there
was
no
objection
to
free
Negroes
being
taught
to
read
and
write,
but
after
the
Gabriel
insurrection
of
1800
and
that
of
Nat
Turner
in
1832
the
right
of
educating
their
children
and
of
assembling
together
were
curtailed
almost
to
prchibition.
Yet,
free
Negroes
not
only
were
not
behind
these
insurrections
but
were
instrumental
in
reporting
and
thus
frustrating
many
plots
of
slaves.
The
economic
opportunities
through
small
jobs,
skilled
and
unskilled,
in
the
towns
and
cities,
were
good
for
the
free
Negroes,
who
displaced
white
laborerers
by
their
acceptance
of
lower
wages
and
their
docility.
They
were
the
main
dependence
in
most
skilled
manual
labor,
and
the
deportation
acts
of
the
legislature
largely
failed
of
execution
because
of
the
demand
for
their
services.
As
to
character,
the
antebellum
free
Negro
was
probably
no
more
thievish
than
slaves;
was
not
so
criminal
in
capacity
or
tendency
as
he
was
believed
to
be.
The
charge
that
he
incited
slaves
to
rebellion
was
unfounded
and
his
laziness
and
improvidence
were
probably
less
than
might
have
been
expected
under
his
restricted
circumstances.
There
were
numerous
remarkable
examples
of
thrift,
economy
and
integrity.
The
monograph
shows
signs
of
thoroughness,
contains
a
good
bibliography
of
sources
and
shows
a
balance
of
judgment
worthy
of
imitation
in
more
pre-
tentious
works
on
the
Negro.
Fisk
University.
GEORGE
EDMUND
HAYNES.
SULLIVAN,
J.
W.
Markets
for
the
People:
The
Consumer’s
Part.
Pp.
viii,
316.
Price,
$1.25.
New
York:
The
Macmillan
Company,
1913.
Mr.
Sullivan’s
interest in
markets,
he
tells
us
in
the
introductory
chapter,
dates
from
his
services
on
the
commission
on
public
utilities
appointed
by
the
National
Civic
Federation.
While
traveling
for
a
year
or
more
in
America
and
Great
Britain,
as
labor
investigator
for
the
commission,
he
gathered
such
data
relative
to
the
markets
as
a
casual
observer
might.
Later,
on
two
dif-
ferent
trips
through
the
continent,
he
continued
his
observations
and
studies.
Then
for
several
years,
while
he
was
assistant
editor
with
Mr.
Gompers,
the
rising
discussion
of
the
cost
of
living
brought
to
the
editorial
offices
in
Wash-
ington
a stream
ef
printed
matter
on
the
subject,
all
of
which
Mr.
Sullivan
was
called
upon
to
digest.
Again,
in
1912,
he
went
to
Europe
with
the
special
object
of
studying
markets
in
Switzerland,
and
he
made
inquiries
also
as
to
the
market
systems
of
Paris,
London
and
Berlin.
Among
the
more
interesting
and
suggestive
conclusions
reached
by
the
author
are
the
following:
(1)
Great
public
markets
are
uncertain
investments
for
cities
at
the
present
time.
In
support
of
this
conclusion
he
cites
the
transition
in
several
forms
of
the
marketing
situation
of
the
day,
such
as
the
changes
brought
by
subway
and
tunnel
in
methods
of
distribution
of
produce
by
freight.
the
possibility
of
transportation
companies
so
improving
their
market
yards
and
piers
as
to
take
away
trade
from
public
wholesale
markets.
(2)
He
objects
to
the
terminal
market
plan,
such
as
has
been
advocated
by
Hon.
Cyrus
C.
Miller
and
others
of
New
York
City,
on
the
grounds
that
it
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